| Nashville Burning Contributor(s): Duff, Gerald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0875656676 ISBN-13: 9780875656670 Publisher: Texas Christian University Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | African American - Historical - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2017017795 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.32 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nashville Burning is set in three Aprils, those of 1967, '68, and '69, in Music City. In the first, after an event at Vanderbilt University featuring Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Allen Ginsburg, and Strom Thurmond, riots broke out in North Nashville, and that part of town burst into flame--as did self-satisfied notions about civil order and structure in Nashville and the South. The next April, after the assassination of Dr. King in Memphis, Nashville riots took place again, and fire claimed its function. Nashville Burning presents characters caught up in those events and that time--events ranging from the thoughtful and sincerely well meaning to the truly felonious and certifiably insane. The novel is humorous, yet serious. Its fire is literal and emotional, and it is not to be stoked. |